Peter Bart: New Irish Mind-Set Triggers Upswing In Dublin Economy, And Revolution In Its Pop Culture
One sure way to take the temperature of a town is to check its improv and stage scene. Here in Dublin, jokes about hooking up and abortion get big laughs at clubs, according to Ryan Cullen, a 28-year-old stand-up at the International Comedy Club. “A year or so ago, they would have gotten me booed out of the room,” he said. In the same vein, a comedy titled The Snapper, dealing with an unwed expectant mother, is a hot ticket at the Gate Theater, while A Day in May, about gay marriage, opens soon at the Olympia during Pride Week.
The message: Dublin arguably is the fastest-changing city in Europe in terms of its social attitudes as well as its economics. Until recently a citadel of Catholic conservatism, Ireland now has a gay prime minister and has overwhelmingly passed initiatives removing abortion restrictions and affirming gay marriage. While I was visiting this week,...
The message: Dublin arguably is the fastest-changing city in Europe in terms of its social attitudes as well as its economics. Until recently a citadel of Catholic conservatism, Ireland now has a gay prime minister and has overwhelmingly passed initiatives removing abortion restrictions and affirming gay marriage. While I was visiting this week,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
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When Rep. Michele Bachmann decided to end her presidential campaign, she sat on the bus and said “God, I’m a loser.” While given Bachmann’s history, she was likely speaking to God, I like to imagine the sentence was said with the same inflection that we all use while talking about Bachmann.
Ender’s Game is set to win the weekend box office despite calls for a boycott, but with a pace for $28 million, that’s not exactly the numbers you’re looking for to launch a new franchise of an expensive movie, so maybe we had the desired effect after all.
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